Lessons from the forest

Yesterday, late afternoon, I was heading down the driveway to go get the mail.   And here came the deer, heading down the driveway in the opposite direction.   They veered off into the paddock  …  obviously they weren’t interested…

Hubby and I were sitting on the couch last night. Hubby had a lot of important work to do on the computer. But the internet was not working. Annoyance!Hubby got up off the couch and went out on…

I had originally included this photo in yesterday’s blog post.   This is a brochure which our teacher passed around at our recent “Bats on Small Forests” class.   It shows all the many ways trees are important to bats:  …

For the final session of our Forestry Field Day, hubby and I chose to attend:  “Bats on Small Forests.”   Both the session we attended and the one before it had lots of people!   I was surprised there was…

At our Forestry Field Day event a few weeks ago, the session hubby and I were most excited about attending was the “Bigleaf Maple Sugaring” session.   This session was offered twice during the day, with the first presentation…

A few weeks ago, hubby and I participated in a Forestry Field Day.   It was terrific fun!   For our second session of the day, we chose to attend: “Shiitake Mushroom Cultivation.”   Here you can see us arriving at…

I had gone out to the garden to gather some green beans for dinner.   I had just stepped out of the garden with my little bowl of green beans when there was a terrible skefuffle in the bushes…

I was getting ready to go over to my daughter's place to hang out and have lunch together with her. Whenever I go over to my daughter's place, I always take the "YAY" bag ... which always has…

This past Saturday hubby and I had the wonderful opportunity of attending a Forestry Field Day event. It was a terrific experience! We both learned a lot!There were 13 different workshop sessions to choose from, offered at different…